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We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and
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“Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.”

Payments and payment technologies have become a very popular area in the last several years. Given the strong demands and innovation, this will be a very exciting area in the next 5 to 10 years. VISA is clearly a very strong leader in the payment industry, and is in a fast pace of technology transformation.  An important part of the growing company is the emphasis on Privacy and protecting consumer and employee’s data.  Additionally, with the advent of the various privacy legislative efforts, (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) Visa continues to be at the forefront of managing privacy.  As such, the Visa Privacy Program is a key component towards this goal.

The Data Platform (DP) department is overall technical program manager of Visa's Privacy program.  This position will provide analysis and technical support for the Privacy Program.  Specifically, the Privacy analyst position will help in these efforts by:

·       Gathering, analyzing, coordinating, information regarding the personal information (PI) within the Visa ecosystem

·       Provide reporting and analysis regarding the PI information

·       Coordinating application’s design and planning to address regulatory requirements

·       Provide support for the overall PI scanning effort, within the DP, and with other divisions.

·       Provide PI scanning analysis and results.

·       General support of the Privacy Program

The ideal candidate will have a very strong technical background in one or more of the following areas:

1.       Relational database concepts:  Modeling, tables, indexes, keys, etc

2.       Big Data stack concepts:  Hadoop, HBase, No SQL, Spark, Kafka databases

3.       Expert level in SQL across a variety of platforms

4.       Experience with a variety of operating systems (e.g., Unix, Linux, IBM Mainframe, Windows)

5.       PI Scanning and discovery

6.       Technical vendor interaction, management and support.

7.       Expert level with MS Office:  MS Access (required), Excel (required), PowerPoint, Word

Candidates should be passionate, self-driven and resourceful, creative problem solvers with can-do attitude.  Additionally, the candidate must be self-motivated as there will be minimal oversight on a day-to-day basis.  As such, the ability to self-track to deliverables is necessary.  The position will be based in Visa’s Palo Alto office.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain the main PI application attestation database
• Create reporting from attestation database
• Maintain the PI Playbook instruction data warehouse
• Contact (via a variety of channels) the application technical contacts to negotiate delivery
• Assure all incoming data is of high quality and consistency
• Technical contact for PI Scanning to help evangelize across the enterprise.

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS degree is required. Concentration in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.  

• Team player, leave ego at the door
• Experience demonstrating strong self-motivation and accountability 
• Strong technical experience in the above listed technical areas
• Knowledge of the Privacy regulatory space
• Proactive, can do attitude, self-driven, creative problem solver
• Passion for the product looking for continuous process and quality improvement
• Strong analytical background
• Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills with the ability to work in a global  environment and drive consensus in cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills to interface well with clients and partners at all  levels 
• Outstanding communications ability to a diverse customer audience, including both technical, business and Legal representatives
• Strong customer engagement and relationship management skills 
• Fast learner on both technical side and business side 
• More than comfortable in an ambiguous matrixed organization 
• Detail oriented with a drive to accomplish the task at hand

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

• Work Hours

         Incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours.

• Travel Requirements       

          This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 0% of the time.

•  Physical Requirements